Migration policy framework for Africa and plan of action (2018 – 2030)
xi.
Promote the standardisation of bilateral labour agreements to ensure the protection of
migrant workers and facilitate remittance transfers.
xii.
Ensure coherence at the national level between bilateral and regional agreements
pertaining to the movement of workers, national labour market policies, migration
policies and other relevant policy areas, such as health or agriculture, in line with
international human rights law, norms and standards. Key stakeholders, including civil
society, social partners, employers, trade unions, women’s rights organisations, training
institutions and migrants, must be consulted in developing labour migration related
strategies.
xiii.
Domesticate the RECs’ free movement of persons protocols and provisions.
xiv.
Promote equality of opportunity and the protection of the rights of migrant women
by ensuring that labour migration policies and practice are gender-sensitive and nondiscriminatory, in recognition of the increasing feminisation of labour migration.
xv.
Promote respect for, and protection of, the rights of labour migrants including
combating discrimination and xenophobia through, inter alia civic education and
awareness-raising activities.
xvi.
Incorporate mechanisms that monitor and evaluate the provision of decent work for all
migrants and enable them to access legal provisions for social protection.
xvii.
Promote HIV/AIDS awareness raising and prevention campaigns targeted towards
labour migrants, with participation of social partners, in order to combat the spread of
HIV/AIDS within the labour force.
xviii. Facilitate technical cooperation activities with international agencies, including ILO, the
International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the World Health Organisation (WHO),
the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and other concerned
entities, in order to enhance the developmental effects of labour migration.
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xix.
Enhance national and regional labour migration data collection, analysis and exchange
to document the conditions and needs of migrant women and men workers and their
families.
xx.
Facilitate the integration of all migrants, women and men, in the labour market
including in the education and training sector, removing gender-based barriers that
restrict women from being recruited, as well as the right to join trade unions, to form
community organisations; to associate and collectively bargain.
xxi.
Set up national and sub-regional social dialogue mechanisms to address migrant labour
issues, including the challenges faced by women migrant workers.
xxii.
Provide social protection and social security benefits, particularly unemployment
insurance, compensation for employment injury, long-term illness, death benefits,
disability, parental leave, supplementary insurance schemes, and old age pension for all
labour migrants, including women migrant workers, while working abroad and/or upon
their return.